Based on Leslie Jamison’s personal and
profound book The Recovering: Intoxication and its
Aftermath, this event will centre on a performance in
the form of a fictional twelve-step AA meeting with
depictions of writers including Stephen King, Jean Rhys and
David Foster Wallace.

BBC Front Row paid a visit to Norwich last week to
record a 30-minute special exploring the literary heritage
of the city, its designation as England's first UNESCO City of
Literature and our transition to the National Centre for Writing
.

Featuring Writers' Centre Norwich CEO Chris
Gribble, writers Sarah Perry and Sarah Hall, The Book Hive,
Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, the University of East
Anglia and students from City Academy Norwich.

Event Live lit
double-bill at Norwich Arts Centre tomorrow

Friday 11 May

Two of the most exciting live literature
performers in the country hit Norwich Arts Centre this Friday for
a spectacular double-bill of words, music, experimentation and
imagination.

The fifth Noirwich Crime Writing Festival - the
region’s largest annual celebration of crime fiction - returns on
13 - 16 September 2018. Join
the world’s biggest crime writers (and their fans) as they
converge on the medieval streets of Norwich for a four-day
spectacular of author panels, book signings and interactive
events.

Excited? Make sure you subscribe to the Noirwich
e-newsletter for lineup announcements over the next few
weeks.

Heading to see number-one Sunday Times
bestselling author Jeffery Deaver at the Adnams Spiegeltent
on Tuesday 22 May? Audience members will be first to
discover the identities of our headline authors at the 2018
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival! A limited number of
Noirwich season passes will also go on sale the following
morning.

Calling all young Norfolk writers!

Deadline: Monday 4 June

Do you know a young person who writes
poetry, lyrics, short stories, essays or graphic novels?
We're looking for the freshest, boldest words from young
writers in Norfolk aged 11-18 to enter the Young Norfolk
Writing Competition.

Applications open until Monday 4 June,
with prizes including professional mentoring, publication
on the Writers’ Centre Norwich website and bookish goodies!

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Carole Blake Open Doors Project open for
applications

Deadline: Friday 18 May

The Carole Blake Open Doors Project offers ten
days of work shadowing in publishing to a selected applicant over
a two-week period, including funding for travel, a weekly stipend
and up to twelve nights’ accommodation in London. Find out more >>

[Foreign Affairs] Translates! is a free six-months
practice-focussed programme giving theatre translators the
opportunity to see and respond to their work performed whilst
still in development. Find out more >>

Call for: Ljubljana International Literary
Residency

Deadline: Thursday 31 May

Ljubljana, a UNESCO City of Literature since 2015,
is offering two one-month residencies for writers at the newly
restored Švicarija/Swisshouse Creative Centre, which is part of
the International Centre of Graphic Arts. Find out more >>

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About Me

I am a writer who is looking to expand on the articles, poems, short stories and reviews I have had published and the plays and radio plays I have had performed. I am actively seeking a position in the creative industry whilst continuing to write novels, plays, poems and scripts.